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Double tap once to the body one to the head
Double tap once to the body one to the head
The British military spend a lot of time and money on training, not least: law of armed conflict, Geneva Convention, weapon handling, marksmanship principles, aggressive tactical scenarios and simulations to create experience and exposure to high pressure situations, yet some (very very few) still get it wrong unfortunately.That is what training is for....
Same as when soldiers are trained to fire in aimed short bursts. Although these days, the rifles are designed to do this anyway.
SLR was OK but should have had a fully automatic option.Shooting the same target with an SLR twice is surely a waste of ammo. Wicked weapon. Interestingly the US army is now playing with developmental weapons that head back to the much larger cartridge- 6.8x51 I think.
Would the standard barrel have taken it??SLR was OK but should have had a fully automatic option.
Would the standard barrel have taken it??
Exactly....Wouldn't matter- you can get fully automatic fire out of any barrel length, just not for sustained periods. In reality you could shove 3 or 4 mags out of anything nearly before the heat became daft and the barrel began slinging shots all over the shop and losing accuracy. In reality you'd chew through your ammo load pretty quickly if you did this.
Notice how machine guns have heavier barrels and/or fire from an open bolt to help with heat management.
Tbf full auto is generally for show or indescriminant clearanceWouldn't matter- you can get fully automatic fire out of any barrel length, just not for sustained periods. In reality you could shove 3 or 4 mags out of anything nearly before the heat became daft and the barrel began slinging shots all over the shop and losing accuracy. In reality you'd chew through your ammo load pretty quickly if you did this.
Notice how machine guns have heavier barrels and/or fire from an open bolt to help with heat management.
Exactly....
I was sure it did? Just not used by the UK?SLR was OK but should have had a fully automatic option.
Would the standard barrel have taken it??
Wouldn't matter- you can get fully automatic fire out of any barrel length, just not for sustained periods. In reality you could shove 3 or 4 mags out of anything nearly before the heat became daft and the barrel began slinging shots all over the shop and losing accuracy. In reality you'd chew through your ammo load pretty quickly if you did this.
Notice how machine guns have heavier barrels and/or fire from an open bolt to help with heat management.
Tbf full auto is generally for show or indescriminant clearance
Any more than 5 or 6 and your aim will be off(muzzle lift)
As above, you're right the UK variant didn't.I was sure it did? Just not used by the UK?
Staying off topic I would absolutely love a bash on an mg42Some non-UK SLR variants (the SLR being produced for the UK based on the Belgian FN FAL design) had fully automatic options. But this became less and less, as @davidroberts30 mentioned, too many rounds alters your aim.
Fully automatic gives you the option for quick bursts when initially reacting to an attack (depending on the circumstances), and more particularly to give aimed 2-4 round bursts when working as a fireteam simply suppressing the enemy (making them keep their heads down and not shoot back) while a different team moves in to an assault position.
Gunner's with the GPMG or similar would change barrel every 2-300 rounds, depending on rate of fire; maybe a bit more depending on the situation and so long as the barrel wasn't glowing and bending.
This is way off topic...
Staying off topic I would absolutely love a bash on an mg42
Yeah I went on a stag in Poland and got to let fly with one of those plus a load of othersGo to Poland (not to invade it, just visit) or the USA. I got to fire the rifle used by the red army in WW2- Moisin-Nagant.
Yes in the uk if you can show the need to warrant the caliber you can get itWas in my local gun shop one night (Its a converted garage in the corner of a guys yard, he only opens for a few hours in the evening cause he works full time). There was a chap there debating wether to buy a .50 cal or .338 lapua magnum, both rifles were second hand one was black, one was sand coloured. Up until that point I didn't realise an ordinary Joe Bloggs could own such a cannon privately.
The UK has historically been a reasonably safe place without the population carrying guns for personal safety or deterrent.
The reality is as population expands the U.K is slowly becoming more lawless & life is becoming cheaper here year on year, I wonder how long it will be before we are witnessing similar scenarios like this at our side of the pond.